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A Love Story With a Lesson on the Value of Hygienic Living. By LOUISE J. STARKWEATHER. [Copyright. 1909. by American Press Asso ciation.] Ft was early morning in northern Maine, and the Dig porch of the sum mer hotel was dotted here and there with groups of people who were plan ning for the day's pleasure. The air was almost crisp in its freshness, and the tall man in clerical garb who wus walking slowly down the length of the porch shuddered a little lu the chilly atmosphere. As he approached a particularly jolly party one of the womeu started toward him and said eagerly: "Well, what have you decided, Dr. Meredith?" * "That you will have a beautiful day for your picnic." he replied, smiling a little and glancing toward the lake and the mountains about which the mists still lingered. "Then It is not to be our picnic?" There was au answering smile upon her lips, but her eyes looked troubled. "I thought perhaps you would go. nft er all. You know you half promised"T "I am very sorry, Miss Curtis, but I have some work which 1 must do tp day." ' "Rut, Dr. Meredith." Miss Curtis an swered jestingly, though there was an j undercurrent of earnestness in her voice. "I'm afraid yon have forgotten about that boy Jack who was always at work." "Hut I'm no longer a buy. and only my ,most intimate friends call me Jack," he retorted with a twinkle in Ins eye. Then be added seriously: "There is another proverb, my dear Miss Cur tis, that I have taken for my life mot to. In accordance with its precept I have determined not to rust out like? well?like most of the people up here." The last words were spoken with some embarrassment, but Miss Curtis re plied with a frank smile: "I'm going to take it for granted that you except present company. Rut about your determination to wear out rather than to rust out?why this al ternative? You surely would, not use a delicate piece of porcelain iu such a -way that It must break." "Of course not. But I do not con sider the figure you are using a good one." "And I consider if just as good as your old rusty one." was the merry rejolnd-T As she imished speaking Miss Curtis looked at Dr Meredith with a glance so free from coquetry that he realized at once how different she was from the woman who ordinarily invites an must ttr stvxd AStr>::? unmarried clergyman t<> a pi nie. So with the perversity <>f Ids sex he found himself gazing at her with an especial interest. She was certainly very at tractive. Her thick brown hair lay softly about a face whose warm color and animated expression told of a vi tality that breathed from every part ?f her strong young body. But. for all her vigor, she was purely feminine, from the lace turnover about her pret ty neck to the big bows that fastened her sturdy shoes. The charm of her personality seemed to cast a spell about him. for. hardly knowing that he did so. Dr. Meredith exclaimed: "I should really like to go. but my book must be finished. Every day is precious." Then, as If iu a dream, he heard Miss Curtis' voice: "Never mind j our hook. Try a whole day out of diK>rs for your body's sake." and also, as In a dream, he heard him- ! self reply: "I will. When do you start?" "In half an hour. You will have just nl>out time to put on some picnic oiothes " "But 1 always wc.tr these"? he be- i gaa, "Well. I wouldn't They're too good I iu every <=<>t!S? r>r the word." the wo- j niHii Inuirhed back as she hurried from ; fie porch, leaving the reverend gentle- , man in a decidedly disturbed state of mind. lie had done a very foolish thing. He had intended to spend the day on his new book. "Highet Think- ' !ng the Basis of Nobler Living." and j here he was. going off on a picnic | with one of the gayest sets in the ho- ? tel. His slender body told of insuf ficient exercise, his pale skin clearly OFFERING TITLES FOR CASH. Marquise de la Rochebriant Says They Are All the Reil Tiling. To any rich American woman who i? ambitious to scintillate in the so ciety of the European nobility a wo man styling herself as the Marquise de La Rochebriant, offers a display of twenty-nine choice titles from which a selection may be made, says a message from New York. "Marquise de La Rochebriant" is Indicated his Impoverished blood, while bis brilliant eye suggested an intellect that was dominating too powerfully a frail physique That he was "ready for almost any disease" his good old physician had told him, and his congregation, after he had fainted duriug service one even ing, had packed him off. much against his will, for a summer in the moun taius. So It was with a mingled feeling of aunoyance and anticipation that he left the hotel porch and hurried to his room. Once there, he pulled out a bi cycle suit that had done a little service a few years ago and. putting it on. surveyed himself with a critical eye. "Sort of spindle shanks I am, sure enough." h? grinned to himself as he thought of the sturdy figures, of the other men who were to make up the party. "I suppose it would he a good thing for me to get a little more flesh on my bones." "We thought we'd take the steam launch to the Willows, as we feared the hard tramp would bo a little too much for you. parson." said one of the meu. patting his shoulder genially, as he joiued the group "I'm sorry to have you change your plans for me." Dr. Meredith replied, a little stiffly, for he felt at a disadvan tage with these vigorous men. "Oh. we shall enjoy the sail," Miss Curtis Interrupted, noticing his annoy ance. "And you must all drink In a great deal of this sweet, wholesome air. When we get a little way from land I want to try some uew deep breathing exercises that I read about the other day." "You see. doctor." exclaimed another man. "you're in the hands of a re former, an advocate of nil sorts of newfangled notions. If you want to save yourself from this reform move ment. Dr. Meredith, you'd better get right out now and swim ashore." "Oh. I think I'll venture to go on. especially as I can't swim." replied Dr. Meredith genially. "Can't swim!" one of the other men exclaimed. "We'll have to give you a lesson lids afternoon, for vigorous ex ercise "f all sorts Is another plank In our platform." "No; you can't take Dr. Meredith in swimming this afternoon." said Miss Curtis decidedly. "The water is too cold for him yet. Wait till he has breathed this invigorating air a little longer." "Oh. I'm as well as"? began Dr. Meredith, but as he looked at the men and women near him, who were brim ming over with vitality, he hesitated. He had intended to say, "1 am as well as the rest of you:" but. being a truth ful man. he could not. He might say. "As I need to be." but that was not true either. How much better he could do his work if he had the mus cles of these men. their breadth of chest and their vigor! Hut before he could think of a way to end his sen tence some one exclaimed: "Oh. no; you're not as well as you can be. We'll make another man of you iu another month." "I cannot stay another month. My congregation needs me," he replied quietly. "Dut your vacation was to last two months, was it not':" Miss Curtis asked. "Most city pastors have that." "Yes." the man admitted. "My peo ple did offer me two months, but." de cidedly. "I do not intend to take so long." "But. really. Dr. Meredith." Miss Cur tis said, "you must uot go back for an other month." "Oh, I shall be as well as needs be In a few days." the man replied stub boruly, aud at this moment the boat bumped against the dock, and they were at their destination It had been years since John Mere dith had Indulged in a real picnic. At first he hardly knew how to behave, but soon he began to feel the spell of "the open" and to come more Into sym pathy with his companions. That they were right In thinking that a good body was a good thing he was obliged to acknowledge to himself, and before the day was over he was almost per suaded that some of the tenets of his philosophy were incorrect. He had al>out come to this conclusion when, late in the afternoon, they decided to take a walk to a nearby farmhouse. Ou the way Dr. Meredith lagged be hind, thinking many thoughts. He was comparing himself, frail and tired, with these vigorous people and was considering how much more he could do In the cause he loved if he were well and strong. But would he not be apt to forget the spiritual if he spent so much thought and time upon the physical? Would he not become, as he feared these people were, too much absorbed in the joys of living? Miss Curtis Ik self, charming with her wonderful vitality, even lovable !n her sweet personality, was, be told Himself sharply, too insistent on phys ical well being. He was trying to persuade himself of the truth of this last statement when suddenly down the road came a whir! of dust, the noise of escaping Steam, a dozen piercing shrieks, and in a second the ruin of a grent touring car. with its mangled occupants, lay before them. Instantly Dr. Meredith and his com panions rushed forward, but at the sight of the flowing blood the clergy man found himself growing faint. H.uf dazed, he leaned against a tree aud watched the others stanching the streams of blood, binding up broken arm* and Improvising litters. Were these the men whom he had so read ily condemned as Idlers in the vine yard? Wits this the woman whom he had I bought a "mere butterfly?*' Must he stand aside while these people did their deeds of kindness? He tried to pull himself together and move toward them, but his eyes closed suddenly, and he fell the hard ground beneath him. It was more than a month later that in New York city and has caused to be inserted in the newspaper an ad vertisement that by a sufficient cash payment, she will dispose of anyone or more of her titles. Explaining that a brother had wrecked her fortune she said she came to America to dispose of at least one title in an effort to recoup the family fortunes. She particular ly recommends her title as Countess d'Autier as a desirable one for any American woman who is willing to pay $1,000,000. She says she has been offered $500,000 for it, but John Meredith lay comfortably en sconced In u hammock on the farm bouse porch. His eyes were lifted to ward the sky, -where a flock of birds was swinging slowly toward the south. In a few days he. too. would be following their lead. It had been a strange month to him ever siuce ne wakened to find himself in a big sunny room of the farmhouse, with Margaret Curtis in a nurse's dress at his bedside One look into her eyes had told him the truth?that she was one of the world's busiest workers aud uot the careless pleasure seeker thai he had imagined. He bad learned many lessons from her durlug those weeks of enforced idleness, for even after the - rbl fe ver left him tbe doctors ha V .lively forbidden his return to tin- city lor a month. Among those lessous an im portant one was the care of the pbys TOGETHER TUEV P4SSKD INTO THE HIGH WAY. Ical man, so that there might be strength and power when needed. That he had learned his lesson thor oughly could be seen at the tirst glimpse of him us be lay in the ham mock. The wann red blood that was flowing through his veins was risible even beneath the tan of bis cheeks, bis hand was no longer while and bony, and his broadened shoulders and full chest showed that deep breathing and vigorous exercise had of late beeu his daily portion. Rut now, strong and full of vitality as he felt, lie was anx ious to be at home again. He started from the hammock and began pacing up and down. Suddenly there came the swish of a woman's skirts around tbe corner of the house, and .Margaret Curtis appeared, holding a mysterious package in her hands. With a hi ugh she threw herself into a chair aud ex claimed: "Well, those hotel people have at last found your precious manuscript. Some body put it into one of the big sales, and they have just remembered." "Let me see the stuff." said Dr. Mere dith as be lore off the wrapping. There it was?his "Higher Thinking the Basis of Nobler Living." Be glanced at a page or two and then said with a good naturcd laugh, "it really isn't as bad as I bad fancied. Perhaps I shall finish it some day, but not now. I am planning to write some thing quite different this winter. It will be a sort of preface to this aud will be entitled 'Hygienic Living the Basis of Higher Thinking.'" He stopped for a moment. Then pulling a paper from his pocket he held it toward her and said earnestly: ?'I want you to help nie with the book and"?slowly. "I have been hop ing that you would let me dedicate it something after this fashion." Half hesitating the woman look the paper that he offered her and. as she 1 read the words he had written, the vivid coloring of her cheeks swept furiously over her face and neck. Tor an instant there was silence be tween them aud then the man ex claimed. "Sou are not surprised, Margaret? You must have realized that, during these last few weeks, I have been learning not only how to live but bow to love." As he spoke, he leaned toward her. but the girl sprang to her feet and stood looking at him with a little shadow of doubt in her eyes. "But?you have known me so short a time?are you sure?" "Am sure?" Meredith laughed joy fully. "Am 1 sure that the sun is iu heaven? Am I sure that the grass is green and that the skies are blue? As to the question of time?can you who know what the weeks have done for me physically doubt that they could develop in my heart a strong, endur ing love? What say you. Margaret?" I He was standing close beside her now and was trying to look into her eyes. ''What are you g<dng to say to me?" He repeated ^his question with the insistence of a si rung, vigorous man. a man who would not be denied bis an swer. As she felt his eyes upon her tbe waves of color again flooded her face. Again she hesitated and. turning away, said, with a Utile tremble in her voice: "I?I mtisl eel hack to the hotel. 1 have sonic packing t" do." I "May I not come with you?" I The man's voice was deep with eino ' tion. "Yes?you may conic." j The words were low. but Dr. Mere dith heard them, and with a quiet stride he was at MargnrePs side, and together thev passed through the gate and out into the highway. could not think of letting it go at that price. "I wanted to raise some money for my husband's sake," explained the "Marquise de La Rochebriant," and I can see nothing dishonorable in trying to sell one of my titles. I J have twenty-nine, aud I want cash ! for some of them." Didn't Drink Whiskey; Is Dead. Through mistaking, this past week, a carbolic acid bottle for one contain ing whiskey, L. D. O'Kelley, of Salis bury, N. C, is dead. FANS AND BACTERIA. Effects of Ventilators Are Harmful Rather Than Beneficial. In Brussels an investigation has been made of the effect of ventilating fans in restaurants and other public places, says the Scientific American. Some of the ventilators simply agitated the air, while others were conuected with openings In the wall. The experiments were made by determining the number of bacteria in a cubic meter of air be fore the ventilator had beeu started and after it had been running an hour or two hours. The results may be sum marized as follows: In a number of cafes and restau rants the number of bacteria in a cubic meter of air in the morning be fore the ventilators were !>#.rted ranged from 10,000 to 22.000. After an hour's running the number ranged from 17,000 to 4S.0O0. After two hours' running the number ranged from 27. 500 to 85.080. Another experiment was made in a ho oratory where remedies for tuberculosis were prepared. Here the number of bacteria rose from 8.500 before the ventilator was started to 45,000 afler one hour's running aud to 75.000 after two hours' rui?-\L t. Another experiment wa H ide in n private parlor. The number of bac teria per cubic meter. (!50 before the starting of the ventilator, rose to 2.5(H) in one hour and to 4.000 in two hours. The ventilator was then stopped. Two hours later the number of bacteria per cubic meter had fallen to 700. These figures are so eloquent that no further discussion is needed to show that the ventilators used in all these cases did far more barm than good by creating a lively current of air, which stirred up and carried witli it. dust containing bacteria. PURIFYING WATER. Electrical Ozonizcr Eliminates Delete rious Matter. The electrical process of purifying water seems to lit; (he most efficacious, and an apparatus suitable for use in the household by which tbe water used about tbe establishment may be thus cleansed has been recently de vised. It makes use of alternating cur rent (usually of 11<i volts) taken from the ordinary electric light circuit and transformed and stepped up to about 8,000 volts alternating current. This high voltage produces in the ozonizcr (a box containing alternate plates of aluminium and micanltc) a silent electric discbarge, converting the ordinary atmospheric air drawn through the ozonizcr into ozone. The water flows under ils own pressure into the apparatus and as it moves along is caused to undergo a treat ment by commingling with the ozone generated, when the bacteria in the water are thoroughly removed. The explanation of this action is: Chemical analysis of the bodies of bacteria shows that they are made up of about S4 per cent of water and 1C of solids. Of these solids more than half is made up of carbon. Tbe strong af finity of oxygen for carbon is well known. Ozone, being a concentrated form of oxygen, has an even greater affinity for carbon, and the moment a bacillus conies in contact with a bub ble of ozonized air the carbon of its body combines with oxygen and the bacillus is consumed as completely as if it had touched flame. To Clear Obstructed Pipe. 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